Proverbs 30:14

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Summary

There is a generation, whose teeth are as swords, and their jaw teeth as knives, to devour the poor from off the earth, and the needy from among men.

To devour

Bible References

To devour

Whoever oppresses the poor for his own increase and whoever gives to the rich, both come to poverty.

A needy man who oppresses the poor is like a driving rain which leaves no crops.

He lies in wait near the villages. From ambushes, he murders the innocent. His eyes are secretly set against the helpless.

"Because of the oppression of the weak and because of the groaning of the needy, I will now arise," says Yahweh; "I will set him in safety from those who malign him."

Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge, who eat up my people as they eat bread, and don't call on Yahweh?

Then I returned and saw all the oppressions that are done under the sun: and behold, the tears of those who were oppressed, and they had no comforter; and on the side of their oppressors there was power; but they had no comforter.

The ways of the scoundrel are evil. He devises wicked devices to destroy the humble with lying words, even when the needy speaks right.

They trample on the dust of the earth on the head of the poor, and deny justice to the oppressed; and a man and his father use the same maiden, to profane my holy name;

Listen to this word, you cows of Bashan, who are on the mountain of Samaria, who oppress the poor, who crush the needy, who tell their husbands, "Bring us drinks!"

Hear this, you who desire to swallow up the needy, and cause the poor of the land to fail,

Woe to those who devise iniquity and work evil on their beds! When the morning is light, they practice it, because it is in the power of their hand.

I said, "Please listen, you heads of Jacob, and rulers of the house of Israel: Isn't it for you to know justice?

You pierced the heads of his warriors with their own spears. They came as a whirlwind to scatter me, gloating as if to devour the wretched in secret.

Her princes in the midst of her are roaring lions. Her judges are evening wolves. They leave nothing until the next day.

"But woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! Because you shut up the Kingdom of Heaven against men; for you don't enter in yourselves, neither do you allow those who are entering in to enter.

Come now, you rich, weep and howl for your miseries that are coming on you.